Kafatos:Waterhouse, Robert

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Rob Waterhouse Division of Cell & Molecular Biology South Kensington Campus, SAF London, SW72AZ UK robert.waterhouse04[at]imperial.ac.uk

I am a third year PhD student in the Kafatos/Christophides Lab at Imperial College, London.

Research Interests

• Insect Innate Immunity
• Genomic Evolution

Education

• 1998-1999: International Baccalaureate, Waterford KaMhlaba, United World College of Southern Africa, Swaziland.
• 2000-2004: Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (MBioc), New College, Oxford.
• 2004-2005: Masters in Bioinformatics, Imperial College, London.
• 2005-present: PhD with the Immunogenomics Lab, Imperial College, London.

Publications

Quantification of insect genome divergence
Trends Genet, 2007, PMID:17097187

Evolutionary dynamics of immune-related genes and pathways in disease-vector mosquitoes
Science, 2007, PMID:17588928

Quantification of ortholog losses in insects and vertebrates
Genome Biol, 2007, PMID:18021399

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